Urge to rampage rising...

Five years.

My husband thinks this is heresy, but I liked the new movie better than “A New Hope”, even as I acknowledge how much it owes to the older film. The dialogue and plot was just more enjoyable.

I am eternally glad not to be a public figure. My brother died suddenly a few years ago and I can’t imagine going through that agony while having the media trying to capture every bit of it.

Is no-one concerned about the portal opening beside her head?

Is this really the most important aspect of the case? I mean, a 12 y/o girl was raped. Let’s talk about the celebrity connection!

If you will read my comment again, you’ll see that I didn’t say that at all.

I started my comment by acknowledging that BDSM relationships are different than rape. James Dean, however, wasn’t in a BDSM relationship. He played a dominant, occasionally aggressive role over and over again. It was that activity that I was inquiring about.

I know there is a real difference between a consentual bdsm relationship and abuse, but I wonder if JD’s career of being paid to ‘pretend’ to degrade and control women in bdsm porn helped corrupt and turn him into the rapist he is, or if he always had those tendencies and that’s why he gravitated to those roles.

I think that has to be the case? Unless she was born into that household (her father still lived with his father), but she wasn’t really a part of it?

I hate that I’d never heard of this woman. Feminist Studies only go so far. Well, I’ll be adding her books to the top of my reading list, at least.

I don’t know anything about you, but as a married, child-free Londoner who’s friends are all starting to have kids and get boring, you sound awesome and I hope everything goes smoothly for you :)

That’s brilliant!

BBC recently published a piece where they presented a scenario and then asked teenagers if it was rape or not. The answers showed how blurred the lines are for many people, and one in particular broke my heart. It really shows how prevalent rape is, and how many people justify it.

Now people will just say that you can’t trust any Muslims, since any one of them could be an ISIS agent.

It’s something, at least. Thanks!

Here’s a good place to ask this question. At a previous job, I left a direct deposit stub on my desk when I went home at night. I was written up the next day for leaving ‘confidential’ information out in the open. They actually had a company rule stating that you couldn’t share what you made with coworkers. Is that…

Came here to say the same thing. I’m glad I’m not paid to try to be happy and peppy when shit like this is happening.

Very much related:

Any time he wants. This is a stupid question. You have trust, or you don’t have a relationship. In our case, I’m an introvert, and he’s an extrovert, so 3-4 nights a week he goes out while I get an evening alone with a book and the cats. Everyone wins.